Re: GDB 13.2 and GDB 14 releases...

[Hector Martin <marcan@marcan.st>]

On 02/05/2023 00.15, Sam James wrote:
> 
> Joel Brobecker via Gdb-patches <gdb-patches@sourceware.org> writes:
> 
>> Hi Simon,
>>
>>> IMO, it's better to make regular releases than waiting to have a certain
>>> amount of changes.  The changes currently in master might not look
>>> important to me, but maybe someone else is eagerly waiting for a
>>> specific fix or feature to be officially released.
>>
>> Thanks for the suggestion. That makes sense too. Do people want us
>> to switch to this kind of approach?
> 
> Yeah, I'd definitely appreciate it for Gentoo. In fact, when you sent
> the first email in this thread, I'd just been wondering if I should ask
> about a point release at least.
> 
> Distros in general don't need a release to be action-packed (crammed
> full of features), it's better that we get bug fixes out faster and
> not have to worry about cherry-picking ourselves. It also makes
> debugging any regressions a lot easier if the delta is a bit smaller ;)
> 
> I've CC'd marcan as well because he recently had some frustration
> working on Asahi Linux when it turned out something had been fixed in
> master a good while ago but hadn't propagated into a release.

Yup. The state of affairs on Apple machines right now is that I am
learning lldb, because gdb is completely broken and crashes immediately
on `run`. This was a 13.1 regression that was fixed upstream a month
ago, but there has been no point fix release since then.

I don't think it's really reasonable to expect downstream distros to
patch software to make it work *at all*. Stuff like this should trigger
a point bugfix release.

- Hector